He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of themSherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in Londons foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In Arthur Conan Doyles The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems.